Control Panel

Table of Contents

The File Menu
The Dataset Menu
The Windows Menu
The Assign Menu
The Analysis Menu
The Molecule Menu
The Help Menu

The Control Panel is the first window to be displayed when NMRView starts up, and consists of a single menubar. The menus available through the menubar may be used to bring up various other NMRView windows. The options available through each menu item are summarized below.

The File Menu

STAR
Read Star3

Brings up a file selection panel for reading a BMRB Star file (NMRView database file). Almost any kind of analysis that NMRView can perform can be stored in a Star file.

Save STAR3 As...

Brings up a file selection panel for writing a BMRB Star File.

Save STAR3 (Auto Increment)

Saves a BMRB STAR file using a name automatically generated from the last saved STAR file. For example, if the last file saved was "myproject_3.str" the new file will be "myproject_4.str". This is a convenient way to make frequent updates of your data to a STAR file as you work on a project. To have this work properly you should start with an initial file name that ends with a non-integer character followd by an integer value (as in the above example).

STAR 2 (Deprecated)

Earlier versions (before 8.0) of NMRViewJ used the STAR 2 file format. If you need to work with these older files use the choices in this menu. But some features of NMRViewJ (especially relating to RunAbout) can only be saved in STAR 3 files, so its a good idea to switch to the newer format. You can open a file in STAR 2 format, and save it out in STAR 3 format.

Prefs

Select Prefs to open up the Preferences Panel. This can be used to set various user preferences for NMRView.

Show Console

Show the NMRView console. The console can be used for command line input and displays the output of various commands. The NMRView console is based on the tkCon console developed by J. Hobbs.

Hide Console

Hide the NMRView console.

State
Save State

Save, to a text file, the state of the current windows and datasets. If the state has been saved once already it will be saved to a file of the same name. If it hasn't you will be prompted in a file browser for a file name in which to save the state. If you have saved a STAR file during the current session the name of that STAR file will be saved in the state file as well.

Save State As ...

Same as "Save State" but always open a file browser to choose a file name in which to save the state.

Load Last State

Load, from a a text file, previously saved windows and datasets. If you have, in a previous session of the program, saved the state this command will open that state file. If not, you will be prompted with a file browser for a state file to open. If a STAR file is referenced in the state file also open that STAR file.

Load State

Same as "Load State" but always open a file browser to choose a state file to load.

Print

Print spectra.

Quit

Select Quit to leave NMRView.